Paula Vega is from San Jose, Costa Rica. She studied Economics and is recently pursuing a Master's degree at United Nations mandated University for Peace in Responsible Management and Sustainable Economic Development, and the Kiva Fellowship will serve as the internship requirement to complete the MA. After her undergraduate, she worked at University of Costa Rica's Research Institute in Economics as Research Assistant and later worked 5 years at Procter & Gamble in finance and accounting roles. There she worked with Mexico and Andino markets providing advice on marketing expenses and recognition policy, as Brazil's general ledger business support to the country's general manager. During her last year at P&G, she was the forecaster and budget comptroller of Latin America's Project Implementations division, successfully hitting the targets. After Kiva, she looks forward to returning to Costa Rica and working towards finding common ground between private, public and NGO sector to decrease poverty.